Hollywood Exposes Clinton's Support of African Genocide
 

NewsMax.com
Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff
Dec. 20, 2004
 

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So much for the myth of "America's first black president": A new movie reveals that racist Bill Clinton not only did nothing to stop genocide in Rwanda, he also pressured other nations to do nothing.

In a rare case of exposing one of Clinton's greatest scandals, the New York Times today discusses United Artists' "Hotel Rwanda," opening Wednesday, along with former Clinton national security adviser Anthony Lake. Among the appalling truths revealed:

*The Times: "In Rwanda, the United States did not simply not intervene. It also used its considerable power to discourage other Western powers from intervening." (Note that the Times blames "the United States" rather than Clinton; had Bush been president then, you know he would have been singled out for blame.)

*Lake on the useless United Nations, useless Boutros Boutros-Ghali and useless Kofi Annan: "Everyone was listening to radios so we all knew what was going on in the Security Council. When other countries wanted to maintain their soldiers the U.S. said no. Of course I was angry against each and everybody. I was bitter. It's because it was Rwanda. It was Africa. What else can you conclude?"

*In the movie, according to the Times, "The awful truth becomes clear: the new [U.N.] soldiers are there to evacuate the mostly white foreigners, leaving the black Rwandans to their fate."

*Clinton and his Cabinet never even bothered to discuss the mass killings in Rwanda, according to Lake.

*Anti-genocide activist Alison Des Forges of Human Rights Watch describes a failed meeting with Lake. "He just listened very politely and said virtually nothing. I said: 'It seems we're not getting through. What can we do?' He said: 'Make more noise.' In other words, he was telling us: you don't have a constituency to make me listen."

*Lake admits it was "shameful" that the Clinton administration refused even to use the correct term "genocide" for six long weeks.

*Lake describes seeing piles of bodies of women and children when it was safe for him to visit Rwanda in the autumn of 1994: "We couldn't get out without stepping on them."

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"Clinton's visage appears briefly in the film — when the camera rests on a copy of Time Magazine with the forty-second president plastered on the cover. But we keenly feel his absence. And in a singularly eerie scene, State Department spokeswoman Christine Shelly is heard on TV as she tries to deny that the situation on the ground in Rwanda rises to the level of genocide. Shelly’s words roundly contradict the reality on the screen," the Crimson says.